Last Name BARR

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Meaning	Local: At the Bar, i.e. the entrance to the city or town; Bargate, usually made of posts and chain. Local: from the parish of Barr in Ayrshire. Local: The top or summit of any thing; any thing round. Bar, Gaelic, an old word for a bard or learned man. Bar, local, a bank of sand or earth, a shoal; the shore of the sea. It may be derived from Barre, a town in France, or from Barr, a parish and village in Ayrshire, Scotland.

Origin	English, Scottish, Celtic, Jewish, Polish, Irish, Zimbabwean, South african, Hungarian, Pakistani

Rank	738 (2000 US census)	698 (1990 US census)

Count	42,432 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

84.99%, or 36063 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
10.98%, or 4659 total occurrences, as black,
0.49%, or 208 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.91%, or 386 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.16%, or 492 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.48%, or 628 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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American Surnames

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Shortest last names

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